PTC reviews San Antonio Road area plan existing-conditions report; staff flags housing, safety and flood risks

City staff and consultants presented the existing-conditions summary for the San Antonio Road area plan at the Planning and Transportation Commission meeting on Sept. 10, highlighting housing opportunity sites, multimodal safety gaps, flood-zone exposure and anticipated near-term development activity within the plan area.

Robert Kane, the city’s senior planner and project manager for the San Antonio Road area plan, told the commission the study area covers roughly 275 acres along about 1.8 miles of San Antonio Road and forms the core of the Bayshore–Alma–San Antonio priority development area. "Staff is really excited about this plan and the potential that it might have, to help us reimagine land use and mobility in an important corridor in South Palo Alto," Kane said during the presentation.

Why it matters: the plan area contains a large share of the city’s identified housing opportunity sites and several zoning changes designed to support housing growth. The staff summary said recent pipeline projects could yield roughly 750 housing units if developed as proposed; the plan area’s…